The State vs. the Dead Body of Isaac Grimer

Date: 
December 10, 1868

Deceased

Isaac Grimer
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say That Isaac Grimer came to his death on the Spann Church road near Jacobs Church ... by misfortune or accident

Coroner

Coroner: 
James E. Lee
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Jacobs Branch on the Spaun Church road
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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Transcription: 

he was under the influence of liquor and got down near the road side and became paralyzed and in making exertion to get up he caught a small twig across the wind pipe and choked to death

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